Interview

‘It’s almost like you’re hosting a dinner party, so that mix of guests is really important’

Angela Scanlon on how she’s much happier with the current series of her Saturday night chat show, why she’s a nightmare to watch TV with and how when she had the biggest job of her career, she was miserable

Angela Scanlon on presenting her chat show: ‘It’s almost like you’re hosting a dinner party, so that mix of guests is really important’

When you’re watching a Saturday night chat show and the guests interact naturally, chatting amiably to the host and to the other stars on the couch, it’s easy to believe that it just happens that way, but the reality is that a lot of hard work goes into making a successful chat show look so simple.

“That’s the dream,” says Angela Scanlon, presenter of RTÉ Saturday night show, Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything. “To create ...